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THE DISPENSARY IN GEORGIA. §he Darlington $jkm HENRY T. THOMPSON. WADDY THOMPSON, Editors. Thursday, Feb. 16,1893. "THE GRAND OLD MAN.” When Gladstone introduced the bill for Irish home rule in the English House of Commons’ on Monday, he had the eyes of the whole world upon him. Far advanced as he is in years he never before appeared under more favorable auspices nor has he ever shown himself more worthy of the popular name he bears, “the Grand Old Man.” For years he has been the lead ing figure in English politics, challenging the administration of the whole world. Nobly has he fought in the past for the Irish cause, and, now that he is standing upon the last span of life, most of the men of his age having passed away, he is still fighting for the principle nearest to his heart—a grand philan thropic principle that meets with sympahy in all lands and across all waters. The name of Gladstone is as sociated with the name of free dom. In all countries, no mat ter what be the clime or what be the tongue, his personage is regarded as the beacon-light for those who believe it an inalien able right of men to govern themselves. In the evening of life he occupies a position as beautiful as it is grand. In America, “the land of the free, and thehomeof the brave,” where democratic institutions prevail and the right of self government is jealously guard ed, Gladstone holds a warm place in every heart We are with him in the fight. Enjoy ing the blessings of liberty, we wish that the sons of old Erin could do the same. Gladstone is right: Ireland should have a government of her people, by her people and for her people. THE RAILROAD WAR. The railroad tax war contin ues and is the sensation of the day. Last week it took a new, but exciting and interesting turn. Judge Simonton, of the United States Court, issued an order restraining Sheriffs from further levying on the property of railroads under control of receivers appointed by the fed eral Court and to show cause why they should not be held in contempt of said Court for hav ing already levied on property of said railroads. The Governor, on the other hand, has instructed the Sher iffs to hold on to the property daspite Judge Simon ton’s or der. The Governor seems eager to have Judge Simonton place the Sheriffs in jail for contempt in order that the cases mighfbe carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, under habeas corpus proceedings, and a de cision be obtained immediately from that tribunal. It is an in teresting fight between State and federal authorities. On Monday last the Sheriffs and Treasurers of several coun ties appeared before the United States Court in Charleston, in answer to the summons, to show cause why they should not be held for contempt of Court. Both the county officials and the railroads are represented by able lawyers. Accounts given in the latest issues of the daily papers received here before we went to press state that the trial is still in progress and is eliciting much interest from all sides. The public generally await with eagerness the out come. GENERAL NEWS. Item* or Interest From All Over The World. Three little children were burned to death at Bell Aire, Mich., last week. Gen. Beauregard was report ed quite ill last week, but he is now reported better. Three men were killed in a railroad wreck, near Grand' Rapids, Mich., on Friday A vessel was wrecked off the coast of New Jersey last week and five persons lost their lives. A London steamer was struck by a severe storm in mid-ocean recently and nine persons were drowned. In a panic in Leipsic, Ger many, last week, caused by the crv of fire, six persons were killed and three injured. Two negro boys were lynched at Magnolia, Miss., on Wednes day night of last week, for rob bing and burning a store. Judge W. V. Allen, a Popu list with Democratic tendencies, was elected United States Sena tor from Nebraska last week. Dr. Norven Green, well known as President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died in Louisville on Sunday. In a railroad wreck, near Pana, 111 , on Wednesday of last week, thirty one persons were injured and one man was burned to dei th. Fire destroyed a lunatic asy lum, near Dover, N. H., on Thursday night. Of the forty- eight inmates forty-four were burned to death. The federal House of Repre sentatives refused on Thursday, by a vote of 15L* to 143, to repeal the Sherman Silver Act. This is a victory for the free silver men. The floods last summer des troyed tho crops in the upper portion of Louisiana and four thousand people in that section are said to be on the verge of starvation. The bill providing Home Rule for Ireland was introduced in the English House of Commons on Tuesday by Gladstone, “the Grand Old Man,” who made a masterly speech. Ferdinand do Lesseps. the greatest engineer of the world, his nephew Charles de Lesseps, and three other prominent citi zens of France have been con victed and sentenced to impris onment for fraud and corrup tion in the great Panama Canal swindle. The Democrats of the federal Senate do not seem disposed to confirm the nomination of Judge Jackson, a Democrat, to succeed the late Justice Lamar on the Supreme lercii, because this would give Dar.dson the opportunity to appoint a Re publican as successor to Judge Jackson in the Circuit Court. A BABY IN THE SNOW. EX-JUDGE MAHER. Ex-Judge John J Maher died at his home in Barnwell on Fri day, aged 67. He was one of the most dist nguished lawyers in the State. Although a Demo crat he was elected a Judge by the Republicans in 1874 and at the earnest solicitation of the white people he accepted. In those dark days he rendered the State valuable service. He was codifying the laws of the State, by appointment from the Legis lature, at the time of his death. STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, and Put In Paragraphs. Guy Haynes, a white man, committed suicide in Greenville on Friday. A Southern base ball league has been organized for the sea son. Charleston has a place in the league. The old suit against the State for the possession of Agricul tural Hall in Columbia has “bobbed up” again. Robert Hazel, a colored con stable, was killed near Charles- to i on Friday, by another color ed man named Jerry Horlbeck, whom he was trying to arrest. It is reported that a State Con vention will be held in Colum bia in the early spring, which will arrange to make prohibi tion a big feature in the next political campaign. The Sumter County Farmers Alliance has endorsed Mr. C. L. Williamson, of that county, for Collector of Internal Revenue for this State. Mr. Williamson is a conservative member of the Legislature. Ira Hoggshead and his uncle, Ephraim Cassle, both o" Green ville, went North last week to buy counterfeit money. In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on Sun day, they became engaged in a quarrel with a man, named George Appo, and Hoggshead shot him. It is thought that Appo will die. The two South Carolinians are in jail. Chairman Childs, of tho Pro hibition State Executive Com mittee, has issued an address to prohibitionists advising them not to sign petitions for dispen saries. Mr. Childs hopes that this will keep dispensaries from being established, as it is neces sary in order to establish a dis pensary that a majority of the free.holders in the town petition for it. It Cost One County Alone More than is Approprialed for our Whole State. (News and Courier.! The dispensary system is in force, and has been for about two years, in Clark County, Georgia. The are cal report of the county dispenser, recently made public, shows that for the year there was bought $55,000 worth of liquor, which netted $77,000, leaving $5,000 worth of stock on hand, the year’s trans actions showing a profit of $14,- 000, after paying all the expen ses of running the establish ment. We do not know, of course, how the tastes and thirsts of the Georgia county compare with those of other counties in this general region of the country; but if we may assume that our Georgia neigh bors are average drinkers it would appear that our Legis lature made a serious miscal culation somewhere in appro priating only $50,000 to set up the dispensary business in South Carolina This was precisely the cost of the supply of bever ages for Clark County alone, it will be noted, and there are thirty-five counties in this State. If the Evans law should pass the Courts and go into effect, our county dispensers would do well to send in their applications for “stock” early, “and avoid the rush.” Learned Men Disagree. That even honest doctors may some times disagree is an evident fact, and in literature as in medicine there are two sides to a shield. When Professor E. H. Palmer was teaching oriental languages at Cambridge university. England, he received a note, badly written and in correctly spelled, asking if he could “read the inclosed document." The document proved to be a paper written in Persian, and presented no difficulty whatever to the professor, who sent it back, saying that it was a war rant or ticket for certain goods, setting forth in the name of Allah the quanti ty, quality and make of the stuff. A day or two afterward another letter came from the same correspondent. It contained a ten pound note and the words: Dexh Sib—Hooray for old Cambridge! Thia was what the Oxford chap said It was. “This" proved to be a copy of the “Ox ford chap’s” translation. “This very curious and most interest ing document,” he wrote, "appears to be a copy of an ancient Persian inscription, probably taken from a tomb or a trium phal column. It is, however, very in complete. It reads as follows: ‘In the name of God. This was erected by [name uncertain] in the year [uncertain]. It is one thousand four hundred and seventy-five long and seven hundred and thirty broad, and it’— Here the manuscript abruptly ends.” — Youth’s Companion. Good Advice on the Subject of Hats. Some one has said that not one man in a dozen knows how to wear a dress coat, and it is quite as true that a large num ber of individuals do not have any idea how to wear a hat One man can wear his hat at the back of his head and look well dressed, while another having his hat in that position would look as though he were recovering from a protracted round of dissipation. It is just the same with the other positions, on the top of the head, on either side or drawn over the forehead. It is knowing how to wear a hat which makes it look well, and the knowledge often enables the poor man to look more dressy in a cheap hat than his richer neighbor in a much more cost ly one. The time the knowledge is a saving one is when buying a hat. A good sales man will take care that a customer gets a hat that will fit him when worn in the position which is most becoming to that individual, but unless this is taken care of by either purchaser or salesman there will be little satisfaction from the pur chase and the hat will probably blew off at the smallest provocation. A but that fits and is worn right seldom blows off, no matter how high the wind may be.— SL Louis Globe- Democrat. The Jewels of ft Saint. The idea of sanctity usually carries with it a suggestion of poverty, and it may seem a contradiction to refer to the jewels of a saint It has been customary for painters who choose for their sub jects saints or martyrs to treat them with the utmost simplicity. In a ma jority of cases they are depicted as de void of ornament or decoration, and in the few exceptional instances, as when the subject of the picture is a ruler or king, the gems are few and purely sym bolic, being sufficient only to denote the rank of the individnal portrayed. Raphael, who was perhaps the great est painter of religious subjects the world has known, has in most of his works ad hered strictly to this rule, bnt in the head of “St. Cecilia” is to be noticed a de parture from it. A row of pearls, to which are attached three pendants, ornaments her gown at the neck, and this is her only jewelry. The hair is simply ar ranged and without a jewel of any kind. The single row of gems, themselves the emblems of chastity, emphasizes the ex quisite simplicity of the face.—Jewelers' Weekly. An Unpardonable Offenee. A young woman condemns herself in the eyes of good society who is observed to enter alone with a young man a place for public refreshment, be the reetanrant or tearoom ever so select. Bred under other conditions of a society so neces sarily varying as that in our broad America, a stranger visiting New York, for instance, might readily and inno cently make a mistake of this nature, and blush at finding herself condemned for it. In the same category of offenses is ranked that of maidens visiting places | of public amusement under the escort of ! young men alone. Many parts of the south and west al low this to be done with the smiling con sent of good society, but in eastern cities it is considered a violation of the code of good form, and for the comfort, if not the convenience, of the girl considering it, hail better be ranked among the lost j privileges upon which social evolution may look back with fond regret.—Mrs. Burton Harrison in Ladies’ Home Jour nal, A STRANGE CHRISTMAS EXPERI ENCE OF A TRACKWALKER. A Railroad Man's Story of a Cold, Stormy Right Over Twrnty Yaars Ago, Whan the Snow Waa Piled In Banka Along the Railroad Trank—A Chrtatmaa Gift. ‘Every time 1 think of Christmas 1 think of the year 1872," said an old track walker ‘That’s more than twenty years ago isn't it? Twenty years is a good long stretch. Lots can happen to a man in twenty yearn He could get rich and spend it all and get rich again in that space of time and still have lota of time to spars. Bnt I haven’t Tvs Just staid poor right along. ‘But as 1 was saying, speaking of Christmas always reminds me of 1872. I was trackwalking then for the Vandalia line on a section between Terre Hante and Farrington, in the state of Indiana. That Christmas night was a corker, I’U tell yon. 1 heard at noon from the sec tion boss that the thermometer was 10 deg*, below zero, and as night came on It seemed to get colder and colder. It had snowed the day before—one of the deepest In that year—and the engine* had had a pretty tough time of it plow ing their way through in the morning. “After they did get by my section the snow was banked np seven or eight feet deep in some places by the side of the track. It was so cold that I wrapped coffee sacks aronnd my feet before start ing ont, jnst to keep them from a frost bite. Yon bet 1 hated to start ont, bnt I did muster np the courage after awhile. It waa about 9 o’clock when I started to go back to Farrington, and the wind was in my face. 'It's a durn poor Christmas for me,’ 1 thought to myself as the wind canght me a belt in the side of the head. ‘Here I’m fated to walk this cold track until midnight without even a kind word from anybody to say 'Merry Christmas to yon." It’s pretttv tough. 1 guess track walking in inst about the worst trade a man who loves company can adopt.’ "As I was stamping along thinking like this, away off ahead of me 1 saw a snarkle. It’s the Bt. Louis express,' 1 said to myself, and shell be rumbling over me at about sixty miles an boar. You had better go out in the snow, old man. unless you like being ground into little bits Bool bnt that snow was deep. Way np over my waist. Bnt when 1 pot down off the track and snngly tacked away ir the drift 1 was a heap warmer, because the wind couldn’t reach me. And the old train came right ahead with a bnzz and a roar, and her old yel low headlight getting brighter and big ger every second. It was a train of six or seven pasnenger coaches. All were lit np as bright as kerosene oil coaid make era. One. two. three, four of the cars whizzed past me. But the fifth seemed to stop, it didn’t, of course, but the sight 1 saw sdemed to nail it to my eyel "A man and a woman. They stood at the rear window. It was open. I saw the man with bis arms pat oat, suppli cating like. The woman had a bundle in her arms. Then she didn't have it. The man gave a cry of horror that rang out high above the clamor of the wheels and the rattle of the rails and the creak ing of the coaches. Something shot down jnst past my head and landed in the snowdrift beside me. I shut my «ves, bnt still saw the woman with the handle and the man with outstretched, ^leading arms. When 1 opened my eyes again the train was a quarter of • mile away, with her rear green light sinking ewiftly into a dot and then dis appearing. The wind cut me sharp on the cheek, and five miles off I beard the church chime in Farrington tolling the quarter hour. ’That sight was a dream, old man. 1 said to myself ** I polled my legs out of the drift 'But the bun dle. i exclaimed. Involuntarily I looked down in the drift and saw another hole in the snow, not the one I came ont of, bnt a smaller one. "Maybe you’ve guessed the thing by this time and maybe yon haven t Well, sir that bundle was jnst as ente a 20- pound kid as I want to look upon. Hurt? Well, 1 guess not a little bit When I found him he was laughing contentedly as yon please and chewing a chunk of snow for a sugar cake.” "Who did he belong to?" “Yon tell I can’t I never know and never expect to know. He had good clothes on, and the odd little collar of lace he wore waa marked with a pretty silk T. He was fat as a Christmas tur key and the biggest eater yon ever saw." “Why didn't yon find his parents?” “Didn’t 1 try my dnrndest? Didn’t I spend half my wages for the next month advertising in the newspapers? But no answer did I get to any of them. It seems to me that the man ought to have oome and got the child, for he evidently didn’t want to see it fired ont like that. His outstretched, supplicating arms ■bowed that Bnt perhaps he only wanted to prevent its being killed. Who knows? Perhaps he was glad to get rid of It, and when he saw that somebody had it all right he waa glad enough to leave it to tta chance fate." “What became of the child?" "Named It Tom after myself. Tom McCormack is a pretty good, solid sort of a name, yon know. My family may not be very stylish, but none of them have be^n hanged anyway. And, yon see. the kid's collar had a T on it I al most had to name him Tom." “Where is be now?" "Trackwalking on the Vandalia. not more than twenty-five miles from the very spot where his little baby head damped into that snowbank Christmas atght 1873."—St Louis Globe-Demo crat Living In ChnmlMn. Within late years a now style of house keeping has come in. It is a step fur ther than the “flat." Besides it is mnch more swell to live in “chambers” than to live in a flat. It is just the thing for young married people. They take a suite of two or three rooms and bath. There is no kitchen. They furnish the rooms to please themselves, and have of course their own latchkey, just as if It were a flat. The house has an office down stairs a good deal like a hotel Here mail, etc., is received. A reception room is provided down stairs, where guests wait while their cards are brought to you. The suites are all supplied with bells. A ring brings a boy, as at a hotel. You can get ice water or stationery as at • hotel. You can have them "ring a mes senger” or send a telegram. A cafe down stairs supplies meals as yon want them. The house supplies chambermaid service if yon want it A more complete wav | qf living who could conceive?— * THE FLY EATING PLANT. A Carious O pa ratio* of m Vagatebl# De vouring Animal Lila. One species of the drosea has ita leave* rounded, while the other has them elon gated, but both alike have them reddish in color and covered with short hairs or filaments. At the end of each of these hairs there is an enlarged gland which secretes a tiny drop of what appears to be harmless dew. Harmless, however, the liquid is not, for to moat insects, espe cially small flies, the drosea is a most insidiously baited trap. The liquid is in reality a sweet, sticky substance, and if the very smallest fly does bnt touch it ever so lightly it sticks there and die*. The manner in which the plant after ward actually digests the bodies of the flies it entraps Is interesting in the ex treme. Within a short time of the capture of a fly—*o excessively sensitive are the glands—all the filaments growing aronnd the one which has made the capture com mence to bend inward, covering the luckless insect until It is securely within the grasp of the relentless plant. Each gland then poors out open the body » digestive liqnid, not altogether trnlike the gastric jnice of animals, and in the coarse of a day or two the fly is com pletely digested, the nntritive parts have been wholly absorbed by the plant and the filaments have bent back to their original position, reedy to make another capture upon the first opportunity. If, however, the substance canght by the leaf is of an indigestible nature, such as a grain of sand or e piece of stick blown by the winds on to the glands, the leaf does not remain closed more than a few hours. The number of insects thus caught must be very greet The plants themselves are very abun dant in most upland bogs. Each plant has five or six leaves, and as many as thirteen dead flies have been fonnd on a single leaf. Curiously enough, Darwin, who** re searches into the subject were of a most exhaustive and interesting nature, found that the leaves on his plants were killed when he gave them a surfeit of cheese and raw meat The excessively sensi tive nature of the glands almost sur passes conception. Darwin found that the absorption of only the 1-20,000,000th part of a grain of phosphate of ammo nia or thereabout was sufficient to canse the filament bearing the gland to bend toward the center of the leaf.—Good Words. Little Johnny—1 guess IT get rid of that dog I found. He’s too mnch of a 1 fighter. He's always hnrtin other dogs. Fond Mother—My little cherub does not like to see the poor dogs hurt, I know. Little Johnny—No’m, ’cause some of the other dogs is owned by bigger boys than I am.—Good News. Husband—My physician tells me I must have e complete change of scene. I don't know but I’ll have to ran over to Enrope. Wife—That isn't necessary, deer; just take e day off and help me on my shop ping. —Cloak Review. ft M Bft . Watches Repaired AND WARRANTED, MASON S JEWELRY STORE. Febl6—tf Copartnership Notice. N OTICE is hereby given that 1 have taken into copartnership in my general merchandise business Mr. Samuel Harris, and that the said business will hereafter be conducted at the same stand on Pearl Street under the firm name of J. Goldman St Harris. JOSEPH GOLDMAN. Darlington, 8. C. p 18 Feb. ’93. BANK OF DARLINGTON, DARLINGTON, S. C., Capital, — — $100,000 Surplus and Undivi ded Profits, — $45,973.80 DIRECTORS: W. C. Coker, J. L Coker, R. W. Boyd, J. J. Ward. E. R. Mclver, A. Nachman, Bright Williamson. Transacts a General Banking Business. Savings Depaitment. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Interest allowed at rate of 5 per cent, per annum from date of deposit—payable quarterly on the first day of January, April, July and October. For further information ap ply at the Bank. Accounts in both Depart ments solicited and will be given careful attention. o BRIGHT WILLIAMSON, President. L. E. WILLIAMSON, Cashier. Dee. >l-tf dissolution of CopartnershipT ft! otice is hereby given that the iw copartnership heretofore exist log under th» firm name of Edwards Norment & Co-, with C. B. Edwards and J. E. Norment as the general partners and J. L. Coker as speoial partner, is this daY dissolved by mu tual consent. C. B. EDWARDS, J. E. NORMENT, General, J. L. COKER, Special Darlington, S. 8., 90 Jan. 186% Feb. 9—8t. SOI PLM FACTS WORTH READil! With the short crop and low prises how are the people to supply their many wants? Our . answer is, Buy where your dollar will bring you the most. Friendship and small favors in the past were all very well, but this year every dol lar MUST DO DOUBLE DUTY IF POSSIBLE. We claim to be the place to buy, and ask your considera tion of the following— WE BUY STRICTLY FOR CASH and discount every bill, thus buying fifteen to twenty per cent, cheaper than our competitor who buys on four months time. We are willing to give our customers this diffarence. We have just returned from New York with the most com plete stock of — Drf M, Mras, Ste, Hits aii Cliitf - • - that we have ever shown here. No Seconds, Misfits, Off Colors, or Job Lots from auction, but all elegant and reliable goods. Remember, don’t buy a dollar’s worth until you see our stock All we ash. is a fair and square comparison of our goods. Tl anking you for your past liberal patronage, we invite you to call and see us. Yours respectfully, A. J. BROOM. Willcox’s Old Drug Store. FELL,’92. oS OUR SUCCESS * n th® h as induced us for the present season to lay in a particularly attractive stock in the Dry Goods Department, con- • a • • sisting in part of Dress Goods, fancy and plain, to suit every taste, with Trimmings to match. I\1 hiII.l\ SC. Stock of Staple Dry Goods of which we make a specialty of giving low prices by the bolt. Our stock of Clothing, Shoes and Hats is new, embracing all * * the latest styles and patterns. 1 We also carry a complete line of Hardware, Crockery and Tin. H/P. hCtshP a * ; a B times a large and well-se lected stock of Heavy and Fan cy Groceries at wholesale and retail. We want your trade and shall try to merit it. Respectfully, CO «s a- CO w CO ' 1 CO Lll! & CO. IS NOW A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware Store. Also a full line of ifrinlM IsgiliBsiii, Hintin’ Sijflin, Mirny, tas -A.3ST3D TIXSTWAHE, And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing Oct 8—tf .A. SIPIEOI-AXiTTr. Buggies Surveys, JPIuetons, ROAD CARTS, WAGONS, HARNESS SADDLE BRIDLES, COLLARS, HALTERS, CURRY COMBS, BRUSHES, LEATHER, WHIP; LAP ROBES, HARNESS OIL, COFFINS, CASKETS, BURIAL ROBES, ETC., ET< N. L. Harrell, Darlington, S. 0.